The Raiders will visit their Bay Area rival's stadium for the first time. The 49ers are one of Oakland's eight road opponents for the 2018-19 season. They will also have the usual away games against AFC West rivals Denver, Kansas City and the Los Angeles Chargers, and will travel to Arizona,

ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Free agent cornerback Vontae Davis has met with the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders about upgrading their secondaries. A person familiar with Davis' plans says he met with the Raiders on Wednesday after meeting with 49ers the previous day. The person spoke on condition

Ruiz used a basic formula for examining a team's ability to improve during this offseason. He looked at every teams' salary cap space and their draft capital to determine which teams are set up for success during the NFL offseason. Buffalo finds themselves with the eighth-best chance to improve

Bob Ford is an award-winning sports columnist for the Inquirer and Daily News. He is a four-time Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year, as selected by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. His work has been cited numerous times by Associated Press Sports Editors judges, and he won

How aggressive will the Browns be in NFL free agency? Before they're on the clock for 12 draft picks (for now) in April, their 2018 offseason will be set in motion by how much of their league-high $110 million under the salary cap they spend in March. For new general manager John Dorsey and retained

Understand this: The NFL’s National Scouting Combine is a mammoth event. Over 300 NFL prospects fly into Indianapolis about two months before the NFL draft to undergo medical testing, sit down for interviews with all 32 teams and participate in on-field workouts. It’s also a symposium for sports tech

The free-agent running back market for years has been depressed — and, for the runners themselves, depressing. How bad was it last year? Adrian Peterson, Jamaal Charles and Eddie Lacy, all of whom had a top-10 rushing season in the previous four years, received less than $6.5 million guaranteed as free

Michael DiRocco ESPN Staff Writer Close Covered University of Florida for 13 seasons for ESPN.com and Florida Times-Union Graduate of Jacksonville University Multiple APSE award winner Follow on Twitter JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Jacksonville Jaguars are one of the teams expected to pursue free-agent

Rob Demovsky ESPN Staff Writer Close Covered Packers for Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1997-2013 Two-time Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year as selected by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Follow on Twitter GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Martellus Bennett experience lasted all of seven

Sherrington: The one name of guys who can get away here that's troubling to me is Anthony Hitchens. What do you rate his chances of coming back and playing for the Cowboys? Moore: I'm gonna put it pretty slim. I think they want him back. I think he's going to fall into the Barry Church category

COLLEGE BASKETBALL LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville officials are not happy with the NCAA's decision that mandates the school vacate its 2013 men's basketball championship in the wake of an embarrassing sex scandal, and interim President Greg Postel did not hide his disappointment. It's

There has already been movement on the quarterback front among teams eager to solve the puzzle that is the most important position on the field. The Buffalo Bills could be one of the next moves. Tyrod Taylor, who has compiled a 23-21 record in three years as starting quarterback for the Buffalo Bills

Say what you will of Jordan Howard and Tarik Cohen's specific and sometimes limited talents: there's no denying that together they create a special one-two punch in the Bears' backfield. For everything Howard can't do as a receiver and explosive tailback, Cohen instead becomes Chicago

In a game changing move, the NFL's Competition Committee has signed off on a plan to release in-game player tracking data on every single NFL player to all 32 teams. What kind of data are we talking about? The NFL has gathered the data since 2014 through tiny sensors in players' shoulder pads

Some Vikings fans were being sore losers after the Philadelphia Eagles defeated Minnesota in the 2018 NFC Championship Game. But you know who isn't being a sore loser? The team itself. Look no further than this cool gesture by the Minnesota Vikings Foundation to send a bottle of Super Bowl LII confetti

Midway through the 2017 season, Martavis Bryant told anyone who would listen he wanted out of Pittsburgh. He stated he was fed up with the Steelers, and his lack of involvement with the team. His actions eventually led to his one-game suspension by the team and, after the bye week, Bryant seemed to toe

One of the most divisive characters in Detroit Lions history is tight end Eric Ebron. Having been drafted 10th overall, Ebron's career has been a constant uphill climb against expectations. As mistakes piled up in Ebron's rookie year, and players selected below him like Aaron Donald and Odell

The future of in-demand quarterback Kirk Cousins remains up in the air. The New York Jets have recently emerged as the favorite to land the in-demand QB and are reportedly willing to pay him “whatever it takes” to sign. But if Cousins wants to join a team that has the best chance of winning, the Denver

The Cincinnati Bengals don't have many big free agents this year, so using the franchise tag seems like an unlikely option to keep one of their stars in Cincinnati for at least one more season. With Tyler Eifert, Kevin Minter, Andre Smith, Russell Bodine, AJ McCarron and Kevin Huber all set to hit

At this early stage of the offseason, I take a crack at the starting signal callers for all 32 teams in 2018. New England Patriots Tom Brady / Luke Falk The easy one first. Brady is still the man and there is no end in sight. However, New England's options, should something happen to the golden one

'Tis the season -- NFL Mock Draft season that is. With the NFL Scouting Combine a week away and just 65 days remaining until the Cleveland Browns make the first pick, there is already no shortage of draft projections to be found. Here at WKYC.com, we'll be following suit, periodically providing

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Tuesday released veteran running back Doug Martin. Martin, 29, spent six seasons with the Buccaneers but struggled in 2017, rushing for 407 yards on 2.9 yards per carry in 11 games. In the final weeks of the regular season, Martin was benched in favor of running back Peyton

The NFL is officially embarking on an era of big data, and the teams willing to invest the money and effort to make sense of it all are going to come out winners. The league has been tracking players on game day with extremely precise RFID (radio frequency identification) technology for several years

As the NFL continues to pretend that tanking in football never happens, an NBA owner has admitted — again — that he wants his team to lose now, in order to best position it to win later. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told Dan Patrick last May that “[o]nce we were eliminated from the playoffs, [more

Writing about bust candidates is one of my least favorite things about this job. It's really a no-win situation. There's a good chance you're going to be wrong about several players if you pick standout guys to fail. And if you're right, that means a player many people were likely counting

It's early in mock draft season to be firing up the old fake trade machine, but a rumor about the Broncos getting involved with Kirk Cousins makes the idea of them trading down too enticing not to explore. Plus, the Broncos could whiff on Cousins and end up needing to stay where they are, so let&

On Monday, ESPN analyst Bill Polian reiterated his belief that former Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson should switch to receiver at the next level. Many disagreed, including another ESPN analyst. Said Damien Woody, “[People] already want Lamar Jackson to switch positions?! We’ve seen plenty of bum

Plenty of talented veterans will be available in the current 2018 NFL free agency pool. But those players will soon get some big-time company on the open market from notable names cut by their teams to help save money under the salary cap. For some teams, cutting a former Pro Bowler or two make sense

As Colin Kaepernick remained without a job in the NFL—but stuck to his pledge of donating $1 million to charities during the 2017 season—the rest of the league had to reckon with what the unemployed quarterback had started. There was kneeling and other creative forms of protest during the national anthem

The takeaway from the Eagles winning a Super Bowl with a journeyman quarterback like Nick Foles should have been clear: You don't need a great - or even very good - quarterback to win a Lombardi trophy. But that's not how these NFL general managers think. They see the success Foles had playing

We're putting a different spin on mock drafting here at Pro Football Weekly. Because what's the point in predicting how the top QB prospects will go off the board in April before we know which clubs in March could attempt to fill their franchise QB voids in a rare offseason with viable veteran

Between now and the start of the new league year in March, we're going to look ahead at the offseason for each NFL team, division by division. Our offseason summaries began with the AFC — East, North, South and West — and now we move to the NFL's other conference, home of the Super Bowl champion

Drew Brees, New Orleans Saints, 5 years, $140 million ($75 million fully guaranteed) The Saints are handcuffed a bit because they can't franchise Brees (his contract prevents it) and they must get a new contract finished prior to March 14. That's the date when his current deal voids, and if that

During the 2017 season, the wide receiver position was extremely thin for the New York Giants. In one week — a Week 5 defeat at the hands of the Los Angeles Chargers — the Giants lost Odell Beckham Jr., Brandon Marshall and Dwayne Harris all to season-ending injuries. Sterling Shepard played most of

Cameron Wolfe ESPN Staff Writer Close Covered the Broncos for two seasons with the Denver Post Graduate of the University of Houston A native of Jackson, Miss. Follow on Twitter NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Even with new coaches and heightened expectations, the Tennessee Titans still revolve around quarterback

The talk in league circles that the Chiefs could be preparing to try to trade cornerback Marcus Peters seems to be gaining steam. PFT explained on Sunday that some in the league have wondered whether the Chiefs will try to move Peters. Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports tweeted on Monday that he “continue

Most will agree that letting two one thousand yard receivers depart via free agency last offseason in DeSean Jackson and Pierre Garcon and not retaining at least one of them was a mistake on the Washington Redskins part. In 2017 the Burgundy and gold failed to have a receiver over the 800-yard mark.

AP Pro Football Writer The NFL's offseason features plenty of intrigue beyond where Kirk Cousins and dozens of other quarterbacks will land. As the Philadelphia Eagles enjoy the city's first NFL title since 1960 and the New England Patriots smart over their failure to win a sixth ring, 30 other

The Minnesota Vikings officially announced the addition of former Oakland Raiders offensive coordinator Todd Downing to their coaching staff on Monday. Downing is joining the staff as a senior offensive assistant under head coach Mike Zimmer and offensive coordinator John DeFilippo, It’s a return home